Skip to main content

Demand for Long-Term Care for Older People in England to 2031

Wittenberg, Raphael, Pickard, Linda, Comas-Herrera, Adelina, Davies, Bleddyn P., Darton, Robin (2001) Demand for Long-Term Care for Older People in England to 2031. Health Statistics Quarterly, 12 . pp. 5-17. ISSN 1465-1645. (KAR id:27016)

PDF Publisher pdf
Language: English


Download (151kB) Preview
[thumbnail of hsq12longterm_care_tcm77-141590.pdf]
Preview
This file may not be suitable for users of assistive technology.
Request an accessible format
Official URL:
http://www.ons.gov.uk/ons/rel/hsq/health-statistic...

Abstract

How best to finance long-term care has been the subject of considerable debate in Britain. This article outlines the methodology and results of a model (developed by the Personal Social Services Research Unit) that makes projections of demand for long-term care for older people (aged 65 and older) to 2031. Key findings include: to keep pace with demographic pressures over the next thirty years, residential and nursing home places would nee to expand by around 65 per cent and numbers of hours of home care by around 48 per cent, assuming unchanged dependency rates; long-term care expenditure would need to rise by around 148 per cent in real terms between 1996 and 2031 to meet demographic pressures and allow for real rises in care costs of one per cent per year for social care and 1.5 per cent per year for health care; these projections are highly sensitive to the projected growth in the number of older people, to future dependency rates and to assumed real rises in the unit costs of care. However, they are less sensitive to future household composition. They assume no change in policy and make no allowance for changes in public expectations.

Item Type: Article
Divisions: Divisions > Division for the Study of Law, Society and Social Justice > School of Social Policy, Sociology and Social Research > Personal Social Services Research Unit
Depositing User: Robin Darton
Date Deposited: 21 May 2011 00:51 UTC
Last Modified: 16 Nov 2021 10:05 UTC
Resource URI: https://kar.kent.ac.uk/id/eprint/27016 (The current URI for this page, for reference purposes)
Darton, Robin: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8242-790X
  • Depositors only (login required):

Downloads

Downloads per month over past year